Oh man, I love this country
I called it the land of political absurdity
Full of ludicrousness amid stupidity
First in the pipeline is Mr. Badawi
The country's fifth Perdana Menteri
Hailed from notable ulama's family
In that spirit he created a new Islam Hadhari
The so-called modern Islam resembling Turkey
Some touted it as Islam Ada Hari
When the original Islam turned awry.
He loves to travel in style like big celebrity
Making grand entrance in any opportunity
So he insisted a private jet paid by Treasury
He got it despite hullabaloo by bloggers community
He said the government didn't purchase it out rightly
The government is leasing it from SPM, a GLC
For him, this is a good strategy
By doing that he thinks he can save money
Oh yeah, he thinks people believe his story.
Perth seems to be his favourite city
Last December he opened Nasi Kandar Puteri
And then went on sailing trip with Todt of Ferrari
Back home worst flood hit Johor Kota Tinggi
17 died and 90,000 evacuated in that tragedy
But yet, the jet setting PM was outside the country
He might use remote control key.
Badawi has son-in-law by the name of Khairy
He married Badawi's daughter Nori
Recently both blessed with the baby
That has longest name in the country
I can only remember the last name, Khairy
This young chap is Pemuda Umno deputy
Claimed to have "protection" from Mr. Badawi
Has a big wish to be PM by age of forty
So he is gathering support from Putera and Puteri
At the same time accumulated wealth aggressively
Through ECM Libra and some crony
Media was at his helm through NST
Now he has potent tools – money, media and machinery
And his father-in-law alias Perdana Menteri
Meanwhile Hisham is putting up a new strategy
His keris wielding attracts flak of Malay supremacy
It backfires especially to Chinese community
His reasoning draws conclusion that he is puny
Najib is not convince Hisham to be his deputy
Najib may consider a big mouth Nazri
Provided that Rosmah is okay to work with Nazri
You know why lah, Najib takut bini.
We don't have to elaborate the story
You have to come here to enjoy the absurdity
We have quite a few funny ministers and MP
Such as hilarious Work Minister Mr. Samy
Before Hindraf he represents Indian community
The longest serving minister that heads MIC
In press conference he got agitated quite easily
When Umno conference was held on Deepavali
He said no "open house" as sign of hostility
He twisted the decision maybe after talking to Indrani
This MIC leaders share similar trait and personality
The latest one was Cameron Highland MP Mr. Devamani
He has broken ranks with fellow BN MP
When he accused government not doing enough for Indian community
After meeting with BN Whip, he regretted and say sorry.
Let me continue my story
Well, you probably have heard it already
About the biggest anti-government rally
Not exactly same scale as 98 Reformasi
On Nov 10 more than 40,000 flooded the city
To protest unfair election practice against EC
Dirty ruling party tactics are legendary
Short-notice on Election Day is customary
Just a day before Pak Lah was basking in glory
In annual affair of UMNO general assembly
Full of hypocrisy and puji-memuji
Pak Lah shouted it loud "don't challenge me"
Despite threats and warning from Pak Lah and Khairy
People are defiant and take no heed from Badawi
They chanted God is Great, Daulat Tuanku and Reformasi
November is a month of illegal assembly
School holidays thus parents are quite free.
The rally was given wide publicity
The rally was headlined in Al Jazeera and BBC
Foreign media questioned our brand of democracy
Water cannon and tear gas were fired indiscriminately
Umno leaders are in denial state naturally
Such as Zam who head the Info Ministry
Zam was trembling uncharacteristically
In an interview that becoming laughing stock in the country
Scrambling for words and chew out frantically
He can't censor it as we are in digital technology
You can just Google or YouTube easily.
Well that is one example of political absurdity
What do you expect from half past six menteri
Some are in complete ignorance and dreary
Some will resort to unthinkable publicity
Giving broom as reward never in history
Some will slaughter cows in parliament for kenduri
To celebrate the matrimony of our own Sleeping Beauty
Another stupid joke by backbencher MPs.
You can't find this in your country
A journalist like Michael Backman will agree
So many things to write for your Daily
No wonder he keeps coming here for juicy story
Malay tabloids prefer to write about ghost and celebrity
That's saleable among ordinary
Maybe they got sick of constant spat by political party
They prefer to idolise people like Siti or Mawi
Do you think they care who is their MP?
Some good news. With oil prices now at USD135 a barrel and expected to hit USD2000 by end 2008, this is certainly worth reading on....
I discovered something amazing recently and I tried to tell a bunch of friends about it. A guy in Illinois has, it seems, invented a device that can turn almost anything into oil, plus a few byproducts (all useful).
I, for example, could be transformed into 40 pounds of light sweet crude, 7 pounds of flammable gas, 8 pounds of high-quality mineral fertilizer, and 125 pounds of slightly cloudy water, give or take. Individual results may vary.
Inventor Paul Buskis is not planning to process people, of course. He's going after trash. His thermo-depolymerization process works on any carbon-based substance--chicken entrails, tires, plastic milk jugs, you name it. Garbage in, oil out--that's the promise.
My friends scoffed. "Sounds too good to be true," was their consensus. "It'll never work."
Ah, but it's already working. A company called Changing World Technologies has built a plant in Carthage, Missouri, based on Buskis's process. It's producing 400 barrels of oil a day right now, extruded from the wastes of nearby turkey processing plants. The company is building another plant in Philadelphia to process sewage into black gold.
My friends would have none of this. They assured me the invention will emit toxic pollution. (It doesn't.) It will use more energy than it produces. (Quite the opposite.) It's voodoo science: "How can oil be created?"
Well, it's been done before. The earth created oil by heating, cooling, and squeezing the rotted remains of plants and animals. Buskis replicates that process mechanically. What took millions of years in nature, his process achieves in a day.
Inconceivable? Not really. Even in nature, Buskis says, the transformation occurred rapidly. What took millions of years was for the right conditions to line up by chance.
A monkey banging on a typewriter might take millions of years to come up with a great sonnet. That doesn't make us doubt that Shakespeare could do it in a day. But if this thing is real, my friends countered, why aren't people stampeding to buy the stock?
Because there is no stock. This technology is closely held by a small group of private investors including James Woolsey, a former director of the CIA, and Howard Buffet, son of the legendary investing genius Warren Buffet.
Ah. Now the skepticism faded away.
"I knew it," one of my friends uttered bitterly.
"And it's still oil," another scolded. "Burning it still creates pollution...." Everyone leaned back, relieved. They had no trouble believing my news as long as it wasn't that thing with feathers. You know. Hope.
Tamim Ansary
Worth a click:
Changing World Technologies home page
Discover magazine on the science of trash-to-oil technologies
Fortune magazine on the financials of trash-to-oil technologies
I discovered something amazing recently and I tried to tell a bunch of friends about it. A guy in Illinois has, it seems, invented a device that can turn almost anything into oil, plus a few byproducts (all useful).
I, for example, could be transformed into 40 pounds of light sweet crude, 7 pounds of flammable gas, 8 pounds of high-quality mineral fertilizer, and 125 pounds of slightly cloudy water, give or take. Individual results may vary.
Inventor Paul Buskis is not planning to process people, of course. He's going after trash. His thermo-depolymerization process works on any carbon-based substance--chicken entrails, tires, plastic milk jugs, you name it. Garbage in, oil out--that's the promise.
My friends scoffed. "Sounds too good to be true," was their consensus. "It'll never work."
Ah, but it's already working. A company called Changing World Technologies has built a plant in Carthage, Missouri, based on Buskis's process. It's producing 400 barrels of oil a day right now, extruded from the wastes of nearby turkey processing plants. The company is building another plant in Philadelphia to process sewage into black gold.
My friends would have none of this. They assured me the invention will emit toxic pollution. (It doesn't.) It will use more energy than it produces. (Quite the opposite.) It's voodoo science: "How can oil be created?"
Well, it's been done before. The earth created oil by heating, cooling, and squeezing the rotted remains of plants and animals. Buskis replicates that process mechanically. What took millions of years in nature, his process achieves in a day.
Inconceivable? Not really. Even in nature, Buskis says, the transformation occurred rapidly. What took millions of years was for the right conditions to line up by chance.
A monkey banging on a typewriter might take millions of years to come up with a great sonnet. That doesn't make us doubt that Shakespeare could do it in a day. But if this thing is real, my friends countered, why aren't people stampeding to buy the stock?
Because there is no stock. This technology is closely held by a small group of private investors including James Woolsey, a former director of the CIA, and Howard Buffet, son of the legendary investing genius Warren Buffet.
Ah. Now the skepticism faded away.
"I knew it," one of my friends uttered bitterly.
"And it's still oil," another scolded. "Burning it still creates pollution...." Everyone leaned back, relieved. They had no trouble believing my news as long as it wasn't that thing with feathers. You know. Hope.
Tamim Ansary
Worth a click:
Changing World Technologies home page
Discover magazine on the science of trash-to-oil technologies
Fortune magazine on the financials of trash-to-oil technologies
Yes...this is a riddle.
"What's the last thing you take off before you get into bed?"
First person to respond with the correct answer...you get sponsored to be the next malaysian astronaut to go to the ISS.
I'm the new kid on the blog. Hope to post some meaningful stuff soon. But right now...For starters.....here are some crazie and dizzy daffynitions.....
Alarm clock: a mechanical device to wake up people who don't have small children.
Ash tray: something to put ashes in if a room doesn't have a floor.
Bigamist: a person who's taken one too many.
Boss: a man who is at the office early on the days when you are late.
Caterpillar: an uphoistered worm.
Circle:a round straight line with a hole in the middle.
Confidence: the feeling you have before you know better.
Cuisine: any food that you can't pronounce.
Denial: a river in Egypt.
Duck: a bird that looks as if it has been riding a horse all day.
Flood: a river too big for its bridges.
Forger: a person who is always ready to write a wrong.
Gossip: rumortism.
Harp: a nude piano.
Infant prodigy: a small child with imaginative parents.
Laugh: a smile that burst.
Lawsuit: a policeman's uniform.
Lecture: something that makes you feel numb at one end and dumb at the other.
Lost-and-found department: a place where people take things they've found and have no use for.
Mischief: the chief's daughter.
Missing: to sing incorrectly.
Mosquitoes: a small insect designed by nature to make you think better of flies.
Mountain climber: someone who wants to take a peak.
Net income: the money a fisherman earns.
Paradox: two medical doctors.
Pessimist: someone who's only happy when he's miserable.
Professor: someone who goes to college and never gets out.
Raisin: a worried grape.
Skeleton: bones with people scraped off.
Snoring: sweet music while you sleep, or try to.
Spanking: stern punishment.
Steam: water gone crazy with the heat.
Synonym: the word you use in place of the one you can't spell.
Window shopper: a store gazer.
World: a big ball that revolves on its taxes.
Everyone loves to chat. What's that ?
The dictionary describes chat as follow:-
intr.v. chat�ted , chat�ting , chats
1. To converse in an easy, familiar manner; talk lightly and casually.
2. Computer Science To participate in a synchronous exchange of remarks with one or more people over a computer network.
NOUN:
1. An informal, light conversation.
2. Computer Science A synchronous exchange of remarks over a computer network.
3. Any of several birds known for their chattering call, as of the genera Saxicola or Icteria.
Definition (1) ... is what everyone does everyday... at home, at work, at dinners, at social gatherings, parties, meetings, blah blah blah.....
Definition (2) ...well if you're hooked to the internet, chances are you'll be chatting with someone on the IMs or some social network.
Definition (3)... i'm kinda get used to the chattering of the swiftlets which regularly perch outside on my window sill. First there were 2 of them... now they've extended their family. The other day I saw that they had weaved a nest into the recess between my siren box and the ceiling. I not only had to contend with more chatterings of their young chicks....but their droppings on my balcony.
This is exactly what this darn blog is all about.....chat chat chat... blah blah blah.....
Anything and everything under the sun....or moon
Have fun..... monkeying around.
The dictionary describes chat as follow:-
intr.v. chat�ted , chat�ting , chats
1. To converse in an easy, familiar manner; talk lightly and casually.
2. Computer Science To participate in a synchronous exchange of remarks with one or more people over a computer network.
NOUN:
1. An informal, light conversation.
2. Computer Science A synchronous exchange of remarks over a computer network.
3. Any of several birds known for their chattering call, as of the genera Saxicola or Icteria.
Definition (1) ... is what everyone does everyday... at home, at work, at dinners, at social gatherings, parties, meetings, blah blah blah.....
Definition (2) ...well if you're hooked to the internet, chances are you'll be chatting with someone on the IMs or some social network.
Definition (3)... i'm kinda get used to the chattering of the swiftlets which regularly perch outside on my window sill. First there were 2 of them... now they've extended their family. The other day I saw that they had weaved a nest into the recess between my siren box and the ceiling. I not only had to contend with more chatterings of their young chicks....but their droppings on my balcony.
This is exactly what this darn blog is all about.....chat chat chat... blah blah blah.....
Anything and everything under the sun....or moon
Have fun..... monkeying around.
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